The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-02-05
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u must be disgusting 10 all we'll
thinking and fair.uiiAded people to
rsal the continued and unjustiEiable
assaults made By the Nov Orleans
picayuae % Gov. s. ID. McEnery.
The last and most ridiculous Of these
regulation onsIaHglits, which the Pic.
has seen 81 to indulge 10, was the
attack i made n its issue Of the 9th
bit. upon The late Farmers Conrep-
tion 1t Baton Rouge.
Ii order 10 assail the Governor, the
llsieagaae not only impugned the mo-
tives which prompted the calling Of
this convention, but ii charges some
of the most reputable ellizens Of the
State, who were delegates to this con-
vention, of being political wire -pnllers
and hcnehmen, employed in the inter
est and engaged for the purpose of
assisting Gev McEnery in his political
aspirations. ......
The Picagune, in its zeal to make a
point against the Governor, seems to
have lost sight or the fact that calling
of both the Baton Rouge and Lake
Charles Conventions was not the
work of the Governor, but the result
of popular petition, the inalienable
right of american citizens, and in
obedience to the wishes of the people
and for the best interests of the State
the Governor recognized the soser-
eignity of public sentiment by giving
to these two agricultural conventions
official recognition by Executive proc
lanlation.
The pleadings of the Picagi'te
against Gov. McEnery is of no con-
Germ to us, as they are conceived in a
preindiced mind and uttered for no
other reason than to satisfy a clique
of politicians and Office seekers who
the people fail to recognize at the
polls on election day. But when our
contemporary chooses to assaiI the
agricultural interests of the State, by
dragging politics into farmers conven-
tons, we protest, and consider it time
for public sentiment to call halt and
ask for an explanation.
The delegates that attended the
Baton Rouge Convention and those
that will be present at the Lake
Charles Convention, are not of that
class who make politics a profession
or every day business, but gentlemen
Of capital who are striving to resusci-
tate the tagging agricultural interests
Of the State And when the PicayuRe
charges them with political intrigue
with the Governor, it not only casts
siur upon deserving citizens but
publishes to the world that the fund
amental principles Of our State gov
eminent are rotton, and it naturally
serves as warning to capitals and
emigration to keep away from onr
section.
If the Picaystae considers politics
and opposition to agricultural conVen-
tioBs of more Importance TO the peo-
pie of Louisiana than the rehabilila
ting of their waste lands and the de
veloping Of the States resources, it is
certainly alone in its anomalous con
illusions. as We are glad 10 see from
our exchanges that these agricultural
conventions are heartily Endorsed by
the press Of this State and the country
at large. So it is lett for the Pea.
yftne aud Shreveport Z iRes 10 throw
cold water by questioning the motives
of the Governor in lending his aid in
fartheraace Of the agricultural inter
ests Of the State.
These assaults Of the Pteagttae car
have but one result, that of slimulat-
ing the tiilers of the soil to renewed
effort, for instead of stanneh friend
they have 10 the Pieayuae a bitter
enemy, and the people of Southwest
Louisiana, in all probability, will not
be slow to recognize this important
fact.